Comme des Garçons is that one show every season that you await with anticipation and anxiety to see what Rei Kawakubo will come up with. And every single time, for the last 30 years she is able to create one different statement after the other, leaving me speechless. My connection with the brand comes from a very emotional place, a place that I can't describe but always evokes emotions within me.

Maybe it's the way she is relentless in reinventing herself, or the way she reinvents and forces us to understand beauty in different ways, or is the passion present in her clothes. There's something there than just pure appreciation, it's a relation.

And this time is no different, her bidimensional clothes were a confront to the way clothes are perceived nowadays, a flat image in front of the computer, images plastered there with no life. And that's not how we are supposed to see clothes. They are meant to move, to be seen from back to front, side to side, they need to be appreciated for what they bring with them, not merely a flat image.

One thing that is very clear with the video below, is the amazing construction of the pieces, almost as if they were built as one and later on fitted to the body like a glove and sewn in. The collection built in candy colors and the most known prints: cameo, flower, leopard and the house signature, blown out of proportion polka dots. But the way the most common prints are shown, is something completely out of the ordinary.

Enjoy a silent catwalk, that I think leaves us to understand a tiny bit more the concept behind such a brilliant mind.

We felt that Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garcons presentation was one of the most surreal shows we have seen this autumn/winter 2012 season, as the models came out looking almost cartoon-like in their stiff multi-dimensional dresses and lego-esque hair.

THE HITS:Comme des Garçons• "Ms. Kawakubo is the only designer who thinks like an artist ... Her latest collection seemed to turn couture, and the fashion world’s obsession with iconic shapes and structure, on its ear ... Strikingly, these designs are extraordinarily simple ... not to suggest that anyone can do them (you would need her patternmakers) but rather that anyone can understand them." [NYT]• "[The show] was a telling reminder of why Comme des Garçons and its designer Rei Kawakubo have achieved such cult status. [Kawakubo's vision] is fashion at its most lovingly distilled ... Call it fashion for the purists." [Fashion Wire Daily]• "[T]his show was breathtaking in its boldness and vivacity and was cheered to the echo ... Ms. Kawakubo was in a class of her own. The two elements, shape and color, were played to the max." [IHT]• "Rei Kawakubo chose this particular moment to present a show that glorified the flat ... If it had been a Dada performance in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire in the second decade of the twentieth century, its genius would have been galvanic. As a fashion show in the second decade of the twenty-first century, its satire felt a little obvious. But its savage point was well taken." [Style.com]• "It was fabulous ... Kawakubo did indeed focus on two often-challenging dimensions: those of major volume and color. She had her radical way with both, and everyone left smiling. Wow, indeed." [WWD]• "They were stiff and they were bold — a minimalist yet equally flamboyant sensibility ... all the elements you would usually associate with being loud and cluttered [were] somehow reduced to something simple, even when exaggerated and accentuated shapes came into the equation. But that’s Kawakubo’s speciality." [Vogue UK]

It's hard to review collections seen two days ago, and already online on our site a few hours after the show has ended.

Talking about fashion, I like to think of those who actually create fashion, and not only of fashion as the result of a market research. Frankly speaking, today anyone can do a show and everybody believes they have a creative mind. But then you watch the show of Comme des Garçons and realize it conveys something indefinable -- something that encompasses art, fashion, experimentation and research. And it really makes you think. "It's not wearable," somebody will point out right away. Who said it's not? It depends on who and where, and they are unique pieces you may look at, just like when at school you attended a lecture and not everything was comprehensible right from the start. But then everything becomes clear. Sometimes you need time.

The obvious is easy, while some more obscure concepts are harder to absorb. Then, the next season you see on the catwalk suggestions based exactly on those colors patterns and shapes. All "humanized " and therefore wearable.

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Thank you Rei Kawakubo. It was as though we had all been sleep walking through the week until this collection came along. Oversized felt silhouettes in bold colour marched down the runway one after the other. The collection was an exploration in 2D: two pieces of fabric were sewed together an inch from the outer edge, and the models with their plastic helmet-style bobs looked like acid-tripping Lego women from the future. Who is going to wear it? Who cares!

When you think that every design idea has been exhausted in fashion, Rei Kawakubo comes (or should that be Comme) along and throws up something totally fresh and exciting. “The future is two-dimensions”...

Click images to enlarge. Boom boom shake shake the room. Rei Kawakubo chose complete silence in which to present a runway collection that drew surprise and wonderment from the audience of her AW12 show.

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